Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 44 kt with 8.0° of pitch.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 354 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 982 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,150 fpm on average to 354 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length.
Plan view the roll down the 1,179 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, never more than 0.8 m off the centreline. Airborne 7 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: speed more than 12 kt above the approach speed of 51 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.4 nm, about 250 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 190 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 317 m right of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 26 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm (up to +18 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
three-point landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.1° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 27 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 150° at 4 kt · 4 kt head · 1 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,179 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 17 ft, 36 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 5 ft, 45 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 27 m in, 277 m short of the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,179 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 610 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at 6 ft, then back up to 440 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.3° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the full 1,179 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.6 m of it down the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 27 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.56 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Draco X taxied to runway 16 at UT25 Monument Valley Airport and commenced the take-off run, covering a takeoff distance of 104 m (9 % of the runway). Liftoff was achieved at 45 kt. Ambient conditions were 21 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 140°, including a 2 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead UT25, climbing from 5 502 ft asl to 6 158 ft asl, an increase of 657 ft in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
A level cruise segment started 2 nm south-east of UT25 and lasted 3 minutes, during which 6 nm were flown.
The next climb started 6 nm south-east of UT25, rising from 5 879 ft asl to 10 140 ft asl, a gain of 4 261 ft in 3 minutes and covering 7 nm.
A descent commenced 9 nm south-east of UT25, descending from 10 143 ft asl to 5 375 ft asl, a loss of 4 768 ft in 6 minutes while covering 10 nm.
Following that, a cruise segment began 6 nm south-east of UT25, lasting 6 minutes and covering 12 nm.
Another climb started 1 nm north of UT25, climbing from 5 704 ft asl to 6 618 ft asl, an increase of 914 ft in 2 minutes over 3 nm.
A short cruise then proceeded overhead UT25, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
The subsequent descent began 1 nm west of UT25, descending from 6 564 ft asl to 5 619 ft asl, a decrease of 944 ft in 3 minutes while covering 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 16 was executed from the north, on a heading of 153.0° at 1 nm and 422 ft agl.
Landing on runway 16, which is 1 179 m long, the aircraft touched down with a threshold speed of 44 kt, a touchdown distance of 23 m and a touchdown speed of 44 kt. The touchdown rate was minus 327 fpm and the total landing distance measured 220 m (19 % of the runway).
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
In total the flight covered 49 nm, required 27 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 59 kg of fuel.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values